Paper Panda's Guide To Papercutting

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Paper Panda aka Louise Firchau is a papercutting superstar with thousands of fans worldwide eager to purchase her distinctive & highly sought after papercut designs In this gorgeous book she shows you not only how its done in easy-to-follow steps but also provides over 20 papercutting templates to try out for yourself The book begins with a design section in which Paper Panda provides a personal account of what inspires her how she works & how Paper Panda came about This is followed by the techniques section in which step-by-step demonstrations illustrate various techniques including infilling There follows a fascinating insight into how the author creates finished artwork suitable for papercutting then how to make the template itself & how to use the finished papercut to make cards framed pictures & so on There are 20 papercut projects in the book; five from Paper Panda herself & five each from three of Paper Panda's friends & colleagues (Sarah Trumbauer Louise Dyer & Suzy Taylor)
- all accomplished papercutters in their own rights Each project consists of a template which is reproduced at full-size at the back of the book & a finished paper cut together with some simple instructions The designs are simple enough for beginners though attractive & interesting enough to inspire more advanced papercutters The projects themselves include cards decorations & mounted & framed pictures to hang on the wall all using a variety of coloured & patterned papers to show off Paper Panda & friends' distinctive & beautiful designs to their best advantage